VLVL2 (9.5): "The Woodbine Motel"

[Dave Monroe]

"After a while DL and Takeshi started renting a
conference room in the Woodbine Motel, just across the
creek from town, for weekends anyway, though the rest
of the time they preferred a back corner in the
sprawling Zero Inn, where anybody could wander through
and contribute to the day's testimony." (VL, Ch. 9, p.
172)


"The Woodbine Hotel"

E.g., ...

http://www.woodbinehoteltexas.com/

http://www.caribbeanvacationsonline.com/hotel_info.cfm?ID=150

Main Entry: wood·bine 
Pronunciation: 'wud-"bIn
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English wodebinde, from Old English
wudubinde, from wudu wood + bindan to tie, bind; from
its winding around trees
Date: before 12th century
1 : any of several honeysuckles; especially : a
Eurasian twining shrub (Lonicera periclymenum)
2 : VIRGINIA CREEPER

Main Entry: Virginia creeper
Function: noun
Date: 1704
: a common No. American tendril-climbing vine
(Parthenocissus quinquefolia) of the grape family with
palmately compound leaves and bluish black berries --
called also woodbine 

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary

p. 172 "The Woodbine Motel"    Harks back, perchance,
to the 1870's, the Union Pacific railroad scandal, and
the Credit Mobilier. When one party was asked, under
oath, where the money was, he replied that it had
"gone where the woodbine twineth."

http://www.mindspring.com/~shadow88/chapter9.htm

Cf. ...

"Säure sucks yellow flame flowing over the edge of the
bowl. 'It is gone where the woodbine twineth.' Exactly
what Jubilee Jim Fisk told the Congressional committee
investigating his and Jay Gould's scheme to corner
gold in 1869." (GR, Pt. III, p. 445)

And see as well ...

"Hang up your fiddle and your bow,
Lay down your shovel and the hoe.
Where the woodbine twineth
There's a place for Unkle LEW,
With UGEENY and little LEWIS for to go."

http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/1/0/0/3/10033/10033-h/10033-h.htm

".... Where the Woodbine Twineth is the title of a
short story by Manly Wade Wellman which was dramatised
as episode #77 of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.

[...]

"Wellman's work, says the publisher's blurb, 'combines
the dark gothic tradition of the American pulps with a
detailed snapshot of regional history and culture.
This mixture is shown through the lens of the American
modernist tradition, revealing something that is
larger than the sum of its parts.'"

http://www.wildyorkshire.co.uk/naturediary/docs/2003/6/24b.html

And note also ...

"... bothering other girls for puffs off of stale
Woodbines, nylon-repair kits, sparrow-bright
war-wisecracks ... " (GR, Pt. I, p. 128)

http://www.davenapier.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/wdhowill.htm


"The Zero Inn"

Main Entry: zero
Function: verb
Date: 1913
transitive senses
1 : to determine or adjust the zero of (as a rifle)
2 a : to concentrate firepower on the exact range of
-- usually used with in b : to bring to bear on the
exact range of a target -- usually used with in
intransitive senses
1 : to adjust fire on a specific target -- usually
used with in
2 : to close in on or focus attention on an objective
-- usually used with in

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary

And that pervasive Pynchonian use of "zero" ...

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